Reflections

Like a landscape reflected on water, translation conveys an image or a thousand words through a different medium, or making use of a different structure. How different are language systems from one another? How different is water from air? While it’s never exactly the same, one is perfectly recognizable in the other. A reflection is not merely a copy — the medium where it is conveyed changes with the context and depends on the viewer’s perspective as well. They are intrinsically connected, and while the reflection would not exist without the landscape, it is the reflection that takes the landscape farther, making it higher and brighter.